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Meanings of Millenniums:

noun

A period of a thousand years, especially when calculated from the traditional date of the birth of christ.

Usage examples:

Silver first came into use on a substantial scale during the 3rd millennium bc

Meanings of Millepede:

noun

A myriapod invertebrate with an elongated body composed of many segments, most of which bear two pairs of legs. most kinds are herbivorous and shun light, living in the soil or under stones and logs.

Usage examples:

In areas where acid rain is most severe, the supplementary calcium-rich foods that female songbirds…

Meanings of Millepore:

noun

A fire coral.

Usage examples:

Along with its close relatives the jelly-fish, sea anemones, eel grass, millepores and other member…

Meanings of Milleporine:

adjective

Of or relating to the group of colonial hydrozoans (hydrocorals) which includes the genus millepora; resembling a millepore.

noun

A milleporine hydrozoan.

Meanings of Miller:

noun

A person who owns or works in a corn mill.

Usage examples:

She said that the government had been running programs since 2003 to encourage big corn millers to …

Meanings of Millering:

noun

The work or trade of a miller.

Meanings of Millerism:

noun

The beliefs or doctrines preached by william miller.

Meanings of Millerite:

noun

A mineral consisting of nickel sulphide and typically occurring as slender needle-shaped bronze crystals.

Usage examples:

The day before the main show opened, the phone call came that the crystals were indeed millerite!

Meanings of Millers:

noun

A person who owns or works in a corn mill.

Usage examples:

She said that the government had been running programs since 2003 to encourage big corn millers to …

Meanings of Millesimal:

adjective

Consisting of thousandth parts; thousandth.

Usage examples:

The purity or fineness of silver alloys is now described using the millesimal system in most countr…

noun

A thousandth part.

Usage examples:

Maternal and foetal mortality can only be measured in millesimals, and in hungary there have been a…

Meanings of Millet:

noun

A cereal grown in warm countries and regions with poor soils, bearing a large crop of small seeds which are chiefly used to make flour.

Usage examples:

They grow cereals (sorghum, finger millet, and maize), oil seeds (sesame and niger seed), legumes, …

Meanings of Milliammeter:

noun

An instrument for measuring electric current in milliamperes.

Usage examples:

As the sensitivity of such milliammeters is usually low, it is necessary first to amplify the polar…

Meanings of Milliamp:

noun

Short for milliampere.

Meanings of Milliampere:

noun

One thousandth of an ampere, a measure for small electric currents.

Usage examples:

That version is a cradle-type design that uses a thumb-sized cartridge containing methanol at a con…

Meanings of Milliamperes:

noun

One thousandth of an ampere, a measure for small electric currents.

Usage examples:

That version is a cradle-type design that uses a thumb-sized cartridge containing methanol at a con…

Meanings of Milliard:

noun

One thousand million (a term now largely superseded by billion).

Usage examples:

Of course, we used to use the word milliard for ‘one thousand million’.

number

The number 1,000,000,000

Meanings of Milliardaire:

noun

A person possessing a thousand million pounds (dollars, etc.); an immensely wealthy person.

Meanings of Milliards:

noun

One thousand million (a term now largely superseded by billion).

Usage examples:

Of course, we used to use the word milliard for ‘one thousand million’.

Meanings of Milliarium:

noun

In full "golden milliarium": a gilded stone pillar erected during the reign of augustus in the forum in rome below the temple of saturn, and from which distances from rome were calculated. hence: a pillar or other marker serving a similar purpose in another city of the roman empire.

Meanings of Milliary:

adjective

In the roman army: designating a unit of one thousand men; (also more generally) a large unit; specifically the first (elite) cohort of a legion.

noun

A stone or mark set up by the ancient romans as a point of departure in measuring distances of a thousand paces; a milestone.

Meanings of Millibar:

noun

One thousandth of a bar, the cgs unit of atmospheric pressure equivalent to 100 pascals.

Usage examples:

Peak wind speed was 170 knots and pressure dropped to 993 millibars

Meanings of Millibarn:

noun

One thousandth of a bar, the cgs unit of atmospheric pressure equivalent to 100 pascals.

Usage examples:

Peak wind speed was 170 knots and pressure dropped to 993 millibars

Meanings of Millibars:

noun

One thousandth of a bar, the cgs unit of atmospheric pressure equivalent to 100 pascals.

Usage examples:

Peak wind speed was 170 knots and pressure dropped to 993 millibars

Meanings of Millidegree:

noun

One-thousandth of a degree centigrade (kelvin).

Meanings of Millie:

noun

A young lower-class woman typified by brash and loutish behaviour.

Usage examples:

She's a wee belfast milly